[00:00.00] 作词 : Hill
[00:05.49]I was just a little girl
[00:07.80]Skinny legs, a press and curl
[00:09.89]My mother always thought I'd be a star
[00:14.90]But way before my record deal,
[00:17.37]The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill
[00:19.94]Made sure that I'd never go too far
[00:25.02]Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
[00:29.95]Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem
[00:35.61]Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill
[00:40.21]When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun
[00:45.79]"Kill the guy" in Carter park
[00:47.73]Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark
[00:50.30]Watching kids show off the stolen ones
[00:55.34]Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
[01:00.25]Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem
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[01:05.82]You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
[01:10.03]Looking back,
[01:11.69]Looking back, looking back, looking back
[01:15.67]You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
[01:19.88]Looking back
[01:21.62]Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
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[01:26.00]A bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel
[01:28.48]Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles
[01:31.04]Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu
[01:35.71]Main street roots tonic with the dreds
[01:38.39]A beef patty and some coco bread
[01:41.18]Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe
[01:45.80]'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather
[01:48.56]Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together
[01:51.12]Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever
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[01:56.02]You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
[02:00.40]Looking back
[02:02.82]Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
[02:06.36]You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
[02:10.67]Looking back
[02:12.85]Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
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[02:16.72]Drill teams on Munn street
[02:19.80]Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef
[02:21.53]Moving Records was on Central Ave.
[02:26.49]I was there at dancing school
[02:28.76]South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool
[02:31.28]Unaware of what we didn't have
[02:36.54]Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker
[02:40.16]July 4th races off of Parker
[02:41.78]Fireworks at Martin stadium
[02:46.97]The Untouchable P.S.P., where all them crazy niggers be
[02:51.88]And car thieves got away through Irvington
[02:57.15]Hillside brings beef with the cops
[02:59.14]Self-Destruction record drops
[03:01.54]And everybody's name was Muslim
[03:07.31]Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state
[03:11.63]And everybody used to do the wop
[03:17.63]Jack, Jack, Jack ya body
[03:19.58]Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party
[03:22.43]I wish those days, they didn't stop
[03:27.04]Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
[03:31.87]Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem
[03:36.15]
[03:59.79][03:37.33]You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
[04:01.64][03:41.39]Looking back
[04:03.78][03:44.03]Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
[03:47.19]You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
[03:51.57]Looking back
[03:54.00]Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
[04:10.63]Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
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